Car-repairing device.



I. H. BECKMAN.

CAR REPAIRING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4.1917.

Patented May 14,1918.

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J. H. BECKMAN.

CAR REPAIRING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4. m7.

Patented May 14, 1918..

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J. H. BEQKMAN.

CAR REPAIRING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 4. 1911.

Patented May 14, 1918.

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lllmd \lll-llll UNITED T T-Es PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB H. lineman, or SEATTLE, wnsnmc'ron.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, 'JAooB H." Bremen, a citizen of the United States, and resident ofv the -city of Seattle, county of King, and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in tlar-Repairing Devices, oiwhich the following is a specification.

My inventionrelates to devices intended for handling automobiles, auto trucks, and

similar vehicles, to place them in position such that operations of repair, inspection, et

cetera, may be more conveniently conducted. The major part of the repair work ulpon automobiles has to do with the power p ant mechanism and transmission, considerable of which is beneath the body of the car, and is not readil accessible. 7

I The ob ect of my invention is to provide a convenient means for placing the car on one side and holding it in this position for such repair work.

My invention comprises the novel constructions and combinations of parts which will be first described and then particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompan drawings I have shown my device em b iidied inthe typesof construction which are now most preferred by me.

Figure 1' is a plan view. of my device in Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the parts in the same position. V t Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the device after it has been turned so as to place the car upon its side.

Q connecting up certain of the Fig. l: is a detail showing the manner of carried by the pivot shaft. Figs. 5 and 6 are two views showing, from different directions, the manner of connectg the supporting bars at the side and for supporting the side of the car.

' Figs. 7 and 8 are two views showing the manner of lashing the wheels of thecar to their support;

its side so as to make the-portion of the ,car

.The central idea of this invention is to provide a mechanism which. may ha e engaging supports under the car wheels, together with supports for one side of the car after it has been turnedu whereby the car may be secured thereto an then turned up on parts which are cen-nnramme Dinner...

bearings extending parallel to the position to be occupied by the car. Secured to this shaft are beams 2 which extend laterally at each side of the shaft. One end of these Patented May 14, 1918. Application filed an. 4', 1917. seriarno. 172,888.

oyed a pivot shaft beams is of sufficient length'to extend en- I tirely under ,a car which is placed thereover. The other 'end'of the beam extends'at the opposite side of the shaft andis provided with a counter weight 22, ,yvhereby .the weight of the car may be counter balanced to such an, extent as is found desirable.

The manner of securing-these beams 2' in.

place is illustrated'in Fig. 4. A. casting has a hub 10 which is keyed orotherwisesecured to the shaft. It also has a web 11 provided I at its edges with flanges 12, which are of such a length, in a. direction transverselyofthe shaft, as to furnish a liberal bearing for the beam2. The beam 2,,as herein illustrated, is shown as a channel.

I have shown three of these beams 2, one

. positioned so as to correspond with, and intended to support, the forward wheels of an automobile. The other beams are spaced apart a sufiicient distance so that the longi tudinal angle bars 15, which are secured thereto and form the immediate support for the wheels of the car, are of such length as to accommodate the rear wheels of cars of different length of wheel base. These wheelsupporting members are preferably made no lon er than necessary, to thereby obviate their interference with work upon the car after it is turned up. The central section 19 is not mounted on the beams 2.

V The inner of the beams 15, that is, the one 'which is nearest the-shaftl, is fixedly secured to the beams 2. The outer beam 15, .or that which supports the wheels farthest removed fromthe shaft 1, are preferably made adjustable toward and from. the shaft within certain limit, whereby, because of such an adjustment, automobiles of different treads may be accommodated. While most automobiles are of standard treads, some are of a broader or a narrower gage than others,

and this adjustment will permit accommodating such cars.

, The mannerfof securin this adjustment is clearly shown in Fig. I

. The angle bar i 15,, which supports the wheel, has a bracket 16 secured to the under side thereof in positionto engage a side surface of the channel 2. It also has bracket 17 secured to its vertical side and this has a bolt 18 passing through the same, the lower end of WlllCh is bent laterally to project under the flange of the channel 2. By this means, the outer angle bar 15, which supports the car wheels, may be adjusted for any position along the channel bar 2.

Means should be provided whereby the wheels may be lashed to the member by which they are supported, so that, when the car is placed on its edge it will be held securely. A convenient means for doing this has been illustrated and consists in securing plates or bars 13 to both the top and bottom webs of the angle bar, these plates having side projections 14 about which ends a lashing rope 21 may be placed.

At a point approximately adjacent the lo cation of the pivot shaft 1, vertical posts are secured to the beams'2, these extending upward to a height approximately equal to that of the body of the car. These posts 20, as herein shown, are also made of channel bars. Means are provided whereby the weight of the car, when it is turned on its side, may be largely supported from these beams. These means may be varied in construetion. The means shown consist of providing horizontally extendingbeams3,which are also shown as channel bars, and providing means whereby these beams may be clamped at any height desired to the posts 20, and in further providing means movable lengthwise of the horizontal beams 3 which may be adjusted toward and from the car and act as the direct support for the car.

The means illustrated for securing the horizontal bars 3 to the vertical posts 20 consists of employing U-bolts 30, which embrace both the posts 20 and the horizontal bars 3, these U-bolts passing through a bar 31 and clamping the posts and the horizontal bars 3 together.

The means these beams 3, as herein shown, consists in providing blocks 4 which .fit within the channel sides of the two bars 3 so as to be held thereby and to permit of adjustment.

In order to do this the two'bars 3, which are associated together, are placed with their flanges projecting, each toward the other. The block 4 is threaded and has a threaded bar 40 secured therein. One end of this bar is provided with a wheel 41, or with any other mechanism by which it may .readily be turned. The other end is provided with a block or plate d2, which preferably has a ball and socket, and rotative connection therewith, whereby, when it engages the side of the car,'it may rock tosuch an angle as may be necessary to fit the side of the car and for supporting the car from will not turn as the supporting bar 40 is turned,

The horizontal bars 3 which are arranged inpairs, and of which preferably two pairs are employed, one, in connection with the lower part of the car, that is with the chassis, and the other of which is employed in connection with the upper or body part of the car, being freely and universally adjustable vertically, may be adjusted to fit any condition. In fact, this adjustment may be of such a nature that the car is placed on an incline from one end to the ,other. The blocks 4, which contain the screw threaded bars 40, are adjustable lengthwise of the bars, 3, so as to fit any portion of the car needed. As a consequence, the car may be supported from any point'desired.

Means which I prefer to use in turning the car on its edge, consists of a segment electric motor 53. Any other suitable means a of applying the power might be employed.

It is evident that with this device a car may be placed on its side so as to make any operating mechanism readily accessible for any desired purpose.

Tofurther secure the car body when turned upon its side, I may employ belts, ropes or equivalent means 6, secured to the car body and to the trackway members, 15, as is indicated in Figs. 2 and 3.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. An apparatus for upturning and holding automobiles in repairing, comprising two sets of supporting arms at substantially right angles, pivotal supports for said arms adjacent the angle of joining, means for clamping the automobile to those arms which normally are horizontal, and supporting means carried by the other arms and adright angles, pivotal supports for saidarms adjacent the angle of joining, means for clamping the automobile to those arms which -normally are horizontal, and supporting means for-the side of the automobile comprising threaded bars having bearing blocks adapted to engage the sides of the automobile, complemental threaded blocks receiving said bars and horizontal bars vertically adustable on the vertical supporting arms, and

horizontal bars fixed to said shaft and adapt I ed to extend under respectively the front and rear wheels of an automobile, means for securing the automobile to these horizontal bars, vertical'bars extending upward from 10 the pivot shaft, and thrust-bars supported from and universally adjustable upon the vertical bars and adapted to engage side surfaces of the automobile.

Signed at Seattle, WVashington, this 28th 15 day of May, 1917.

" JACOB H. BEOKMAN. 

